This strange vision passed through me today. Smeared it on Twitter, but it kept sticking to my fingers. Hoping if it’s left here someone else will stumble through it and the Tin Man will be free. Will you be the Tin Man?
Category Archives: History
Bronze Age ‘Microbrewery’ Unearthed At Cyprus Archaeological Site
I love tales of ancient beer.
It’s the start of human history!
Jewish Morocco: Marseille’s North African Lower East Side
I don’t know Chris Silver, the author of this piece, but it’s a great write up on his visit to Marseilles. Makes me anxious to get back to France! http://jewishmorocco.blogspot.com/2012/08/marseilles-north-african-lower-east-side.html?m=1
Africans, Asians Unite!
Asia in My Life
By Ngugi wa Thiong’o
“The links between Asia and Africa and South America have always been present but in our times they have been made invisible by the fact that Europe is still the central mediator of Afro-Asian-Latino discourse. We live under what Satya Mohanty in his interview in Frontline (April 2012), aptly calls the long intellectual shadow of the Age of European Empire.
In my case, I had always assumed that my intellectual and social formation was tied to England and Europe, with no meaningful connection to Asia and South America. There was a reason. I wrote in English. My literary heroes were English. Kenya being a British colony, I had learnt the geography and history of England as the central reference in my widening view of the world. Even our anti-colonial resistance assumed Europe as the point of contest; it was we, Africa, against them, Europe. I graduated from Makerere College in Uganda in 1964, with a degree in English; then went to the University of Leeds, England, for further studies, in English. Leeds was a meeting point of students from the Commonwealth: India, Pakistan, Australia, and the Caribbean. We saw each other through our experience of England. Our relationship to England, in admiration, resentment or both, was what established a shared space.
After I wrote my memoir of childhood, Dreams in a Time of War, published in 2006, I looked back and saw how much India had been an equally important thread in my life. I had not planned to bring out the Indian theme in my life: but there it was, staring at me right from the pages of my narrative. The thread starts from home, through school, college and after.”
via Chimurenga
The History and Techniques of Napkin Folding
Fascinating!
Who would have of thought there was so much emphasis ever placed on napkin folding?
An enterprising artist could easily turn this knowledge into a piece (or pieces) on subjective identity and class structure.
Or just make something beautiful!
The History and Techniques of Napkin Folding
(via Edible Geography)